I think you mean Writer.getLength(). It returns the current position in the output stream in bytes (more or less the current size of the file).
-Joey On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Jane Wayne <jane.wayne2...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > i am writing a little util class to recurse into a directory and add all > *.txt files into a sequence file (key is the file name, value is the > content of the corresponding text file). as i am writing (i.e. > SequenceFile.Writer.append(key, value)), is there any way to detect how > large the sequence file is? > > for example, i want to create a new sequence file as soon as the current > one exceeds 64 MB. > > i notice there is a SequenceFile.Writer.getLong() which the javadocs says > "returns the current length of the output file," but that is vague. what is > this Writer.getLong() method? is it the number of bytes, kilobytes, > megabytes, or something else? > > thanks, -- Joseph Echeverria Cloudera, Inc. 443.305.9434
